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Aunt JuLia's Letter Box
Dear Children: Your letters in the contest have been fine. 1 only
wish t could have printed them all. The judj es had to weed them out to
thirty and found some too long, some not legible and some were written on
both sides of the paper.
Dorris Pullen own because of the all-round goodness of her letter, 1
feel sure you children will agree. I hope the book will be acceptable and
that a number of you will have the pleasure of reading it.
North Carolina comes next in the Letter Contest. The same Titles
applv as In the Georgia Contest. Letters must be received between .July
4 and July 8. Winner's name will be announced Tuesday. July 24. Now,
North Carolina, get busy.
Boys. I want to start an “Aunt Julia Bird club.” Will you help me.
How do you like the Idea? Let mte know. I'm sure if you ask the girls
they will say “yea.”
We will have another “Book Shelf” soon. Lovingly,
AUNT JULIA.
P s. The books on the “Book Shelf” can be bought through any
book store.
FIRST PBXXE.
Dear Aunt Julia: Here la a girl
from north Georgia. I live In Floyd
county near Rome, the county site.
The place where the city of Rome now
jg once an Indian village called
“ChMha.” It is situated amid hills and
Is at the junction of the Oostanaula
and Etawah rivers, which form the
Coosa river.
The Spanish explorer. De Soto, and
his men stayed here a month while
on their trip to the great Mississippi.
President Wilsons first wife was a
Rome girl and she sleeps in the beau
tiful cemetery overlooking the city.
Sequoia, the Indian boy who first
made an alphabet for his language,
wes once a resident of Rome. The
rivers still bear Indian names
The first monument ever erected to
the women of the Confederacy is here.
There is also a monument to General
Forrest, who saved the city from fed
eral invasion during the Civil war.
There are other beautiful towns. Cax e
Springs is the home of the school for
the deaf Perhaps our city will not j
hold the same place tn histoty that the
ancient “city of seven hills _did but
we have many interesting things to
mark it. *“-‘ or > DOßßlss prLLES .
Cedartown. Ga., R- P- ®*
rw.r Aunt Julia: I bare written to tbe com
*
“t tomatoes are rotting, but atoee ;
The rfln they xrou’t rot w bad - 1
etev« yo.ro cld .nd am • twin gtri. Goqd by |
to .11 the rou.iM- AGNES BRIGGS.
Barney. Ga.
™ !&.w-.* "v
ctoled rowl I trill be In the fifth grade
«Te‘ have *>me flow-
er. .o^M?e‘be trre. wbitewnHed. Scb«4
the fourth of May. and we had -om*
plays. Tbe name of tbe play I was in ««
-The Tom Thumb Wedding.’ I would like
eery -oeb to bear from reme
Cuthbert. Ga.. Route 4.
Pear Aunt Julia and Cousin.: I have just
fir.tob*! reeling the courin* **"*£’
en toyed very much. We take the Semi-Weekiy
Journal, .nd I think It tbe beat newiqixper p„K
listed. Tbe letter box and Mutt and Jeff are
“'w.'S?u. have a
‘T'-Fiool at Pleasant Hill tartrtThW-
I like to go u> school very mueb. I was pro
moted to the sixth grade. I like story books
and music and I am ’.earning to ptay this
I am eleven year, oil I
ers and I am planning to plant a ftower R
<£> next spring For pastime I tat and eto
with good wish*, to Aunt Julia and tbe
winner of tbe couteri. I am.
Your loving cousin,
IDA BOROUGHS.
Sycamore. Os., R F. D. No. 1.
near Aunt Julia: This to sorb a beautiful
dav I thought I would wrte you. I was X.H
to see year yleture at the head of the letter
box Yes, cousins. I think It would be nice
to give Aunt Julia a oirthday gift: it was so
kind of her to give us a Ittter box. Aunt Julia.
I eery glad to we a letter eonte«t men
tioned In tour letter, and will do my best on
it. Mr little garden is doing fine for the sea
«nn Ms nears ar* ready to stick, and I bar
some small tomatoes on my vines We have a
very good .top this season, and are through
-hopptna -otton. My letter is gettnr
so I will elose. With much love to Aunt
“Ai MAKi IM.
Haralson. Ga.. Route 1.
Pear Aunt Julia and cousins: Here 1 come
again to chat awhile. Cousins, don’t you think
It grand «f Annt Julia and the editor to let
us have a contest ’ And I think It a splendid
Idea to pass the priar- around. 1 know ttile
one that wins the prize will not be relfi-li
enougs. to want to keen his good luck nil to
himself.!
T wIR describe mv home ft he best place on
earth I. We live in a large white bouse about
twenty five feet from the read. I have
it “The •frergreens.’’ I?»ere afe large ever
greens growing all around the house and three
beautfn! nleavry trees in tbe back yard, with
neks In the front. Tn tbe east yard there are
two large walnct trees. At the end of the
north poreh I- a scaffold covered with Trav
eler’s Delig.it vine. 1 have a seat under it.
I call it Shady N«ok. for tiie sun never shines
under it. '»>ir oschard l« «n the west side of
tbe bouse. I think it a beautiful place. Just
as tbe sun* p*ps over El'sberry mountain a
purple base - over everything and the sunlight
turns it to a beautiful -olden color. The birds
stng here al! tbe time «n anting and «Wmmer
J tell mamma it Is the land of mocking-birds
The "wash bole." as tbe boya call It. to a
half mile from home. T take a plnnge every
chance I nave. I have a very pretty yard
with beans peas, tomatoes, okra. etc. I will
e|ove. wishing good lock tr the winner and all
tbe rest. I remain.
Your loving cno*ln.
IDA ANDERSON.
Dallas. Ge.. Route 3.
Dear Aunt Ju’is and Cousins: Wonder If
yon would let such a boy as I in your happy
band. 1 saw yon letters in voor corner and I
wanted to ere if I could get In. too. I am
13 years oM and not very stout. I live In
the country. «!v mi’es from town. I go to
school there, am In the seventh grade. I have
a little red nig and a little Jersey cow. My
bog Is very tarn", and I also have a bull dog
named Jack. Wei'.. I must go and feed my
docks. Your eousln.
LAUREL SHIVER.
Quitman. Ga.. Box <t. R. P. D. No. 1.
Dear Annt Jnßa: I think It to oo nice to
have your picture where all of the boys and
girls can roe it. I erjoy seeing your pic
ture as much as I do reading tbe cousins’ let
ters I have just been reading Aunt Julia's
letter about the bonk which to to be given
away. I think It to so nice of her to try to
make our corner so interesting. I have writ
ten to Annt Julia’s leter box before, but did
not see mv letter in print. I hope the one
that received the book will be very prowl of It.
I know I would. Well. Aunt Julia told m
not to write a long letter, so I am going to obey
her With best wishes to Annt Julia 1 am.
MARY JIM COOK.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here I rome
to Mn your happy band. I have just been
reading the letter box, and It was grand. Aunt
Julia. I think that you were so kind to etart
th- letter i">x: it is so much pleasure tn aa
kids. We enjoy It SO much. I am in th
tomato club this year, and like it fine. Mamma
has a nice garden; she has beans, cabbage,
tnitt-r been*, collards, beets, onions, pepper,
tomatoes and lettuce. She has also some pretty
sag,-. My iOoI was on’ May 23. and 1 sure
wa« sorry, .or I like school work very much:
was promote! to the seventh grade: I will
be fourteen years old August 21. Who has
mv birthday ’
Isn’t this war dreadful? I have an un-le
wha has joined the national guard. Surely wish
that I conn see him. I live near the little
town of Reytnlds, Ga.
EDNA PEA RI, HI RST.
Reynolds. Ga.. June 13, 1917. Route No. 3.
Itoar Aunt Julia Here comes a little w»y
tn join your tappy band. I will be five yea--*
old the thirt-enth of July. 1 go to Sunda
school most ••very Sunday. I have two broth
ers and two risters. I have a little dog for
a pet. His name Is Rover.
Your nephew.
GEEEN CARMICHAEL,
' Temple. Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins; Here comes
twv Georgia girla to Joie your happy circle.
We live in the country, anu like country hie
fine. We uelong to the pig club, and like it
very much. Uur school aiil opeu in Jul}'. We
will b« glad you know. Uur ages are lourteen
years. We <an crochet wd eiuoroider, and ire
rood of both. Uow many ol you coueuia like
to go fishing? We do, and enjoy it fine.
As this Is our first attempt, we will close,
.asking a riddle: Goes all around the house, aud
peeps in at every hole: Would liko .to corre
spond with some of the girls aud boys near
our age.
Wiautng you all happiness.
Your new cousin,
BERTHA HSYNOLDS aud EVA M'WILLIAMS.
Ben Hill. Ga., Route 1.
Cousins: 1 want to talk awhile with you all
while I rest. 1 am feeling flue this morning,
thank you; hope you all are well and happy.
We have fiad a fine rain; bow pure and sweet
the air is and bow the birds an- singing. This
. world is indeed a happy place for us, if ve
make It m. Wonder if you cousins enjoy
reading nousebold and Mrs. Felton's articles
and “One Woman's Story ” Several others 1
will not laenti >n, as well r.s I do. How many
of you when you see a good letter, poetry or
1 any good artici..-; you like, cut it out and put
it away Jor safekeeping? I do. Say, do you
all like flowers? I certainly do. I wish yea
, all could uave seen my roses. They were love
; ly crimson .rod baby ramblers, and other ever-
I blooming kind, gladioli and sweet williams are
in bloom now. For pot flowers 1 have a lovely
fern, godfrey '.alia, tuberoses, galleroi geranium.
1 naven’t xiany. My asparagus sprengeri died
In tbe winter. 1 have a beautiful farfugiuu.
Have any of ever planted the seeds
of tbe sprengeri and had them to come up?
I would 'ike to exchange flowers with you
cousins. <i want a sprengeri. Will give a
tuberose for „ne. If any of you cousins have
one to give, please tell it in your next letter
to tbe Letter Box.
I will tell you cousins where I live. I Ur-.»
on Broad ;tver in Franklin county, near the
I county line, between Franklin and Stepbe is
county. I ’ire near a church and schoolhouse.
We have fine roads here, and the cars make
; g'ssi use of them. too. What did you all do
, Itecoration .ay? 1 went visiting In the after
noon.
With warm regards and best wishes to Aunt
Julia and all the cousins. 1 remain, as ever.
BERNICE BEATY.
Eastanollee, Ga. x
Dear Aunt Julia and friends: 1 am entering
th- letter contest that the girls and boys are
going to have. I am a little girl from the
“Red Old Hills of Georgia.” I live in the
beautiful country and go to a country school.
Our school entered tbe county contest, of
which quite a number of prizes were given,
and took a lot of them Contests are very
helpful, don't you think? I am in a contest
now. and hope to win a victrria. If I do I
will tell you about it. I have just finished
reading an interesting book, entitled ‘Risen
From tbe Ranks.’’ I am only twelve years old
end was promoted to the eighth grade. Wishing
you all a success in tbe contest. Would like
to correspond with any of the cousins. Your
little friend. LOCIBE SVTTON.
Forsyth. Ga., R. F. D. No. 1.
Dear Aunt Julia: Will you please open the
door for a little black-eyed Georgia lx>y nine
years old? I have one brother ten. a sister
seven and a sweet little baby sister sixteen
months old. Our school was out about a month
ago. We bad a picnic when it closed, I was
promoted to the fourth grade. I have for my
pets a little puppy v the hoe and pick-sock.
Row do you boys like such pets? I am going
to have a little potato patch. I also have a
little flower garden and an artichoke patch.
I will try to answer some of the riddles in
last week’s letter bax. The answer to Ethel
Hick’s is a blackberry: to Hollis Rodger's,
a bed; to Sarah Morton's a candle, and to
Gladys Weaver's, air. Am I right? I wkili
close for this time. GEORGE BOWDOJN.
Forsyth. Ga . R. F. D. No. 1.
iv-ar Aunt Julia and Cousins: After some
hesitation I have decided to write, to the letter
box. I like to read tbe letters very much, as
they are all very interesting to me, now many
of you -ouslns are members of clubs? I am a
j member of the Pig club. My hog has several
: f*t plg«. I have two pretty calves which I
iam raising. Like most of the girls. 1 do a
! great deal of fancy work. I have just finished
a tatted yoke, of which 1 am very proud. I
. have lots of pets. Including my calves, pigs and
i cats. Mamma says I am sure to be an old
maid, as I have two solid black cats. Am
fifteen years of age. Rest wishes to vou all.
Chamblee. Ga. RTTH PHILLIPS.
My dear Aunt Julto and Cousins; I am go
ing to Introduce myself as a now cousin from
dear old Georgia. I live in the country, just
four miles from the thriving little town of
Daftoboro. and two miles from Riddleville. I
live between the two villages. Papa takes
The Atlanta Journal. I enjoy reading it. espe
cially the cansfns’ corner. Cousins, I think we
shogM all alm high tn life. One’s life, to a
great extent. Is the realization of their own
ideals. We can not estimate the influence
that mir ideals have in shaping onr livre.
We should implant within ns -the seed of
higher ideals.
I am a yonng country girl. My life is very
Dill of pleasure and I will toll of some tilings
that. In a measure, make my happinres. With
health, education, love, and som- work, life to
sweet. Vet material things do add to one’s
contentment. Onr home is roomy and eom
forfablo. heantlfnl with trees and flowers.
Then there are the ehiekens. horses, eattle,
orehards and gardens to enjoy. In the home
there is a great deal of literature. Reading
aloud to a favorite method of entertainment in
onr home.
j discuss the educated, the nnedneated
. girl: the girl who has pleasures and friends.
. and the girl who. has none, but wo have failed
tn mention the mode] girl—by this I m-an
the girl who. tn spite of difficulties and dis
appointments. never finds her burdens too hard
to boar, but takes up her cross and natiently
> wends her way over the thorny and rugged
■ paths. Oceans of love to all.
LAREE THTGrEN.
i Davisboro. Ga.
i — —
> Dear Annt Julia: I want to Join yonr hanny
. band Wo fake The Journal and I sure entoy
reading the cousins’ letters—they are nl<to
; letters. What do you cousins do for pastime?
■ I can crochet and make tatting. Who has my
birthday? May 10th I was ten years of age.
I hoe In the field now and have me a nice
vegetable garden. I have Romo corn, peas,
beans, popcorn, muskmelons. cotton. syrup
> eane and watermelons. I also have a flower
I garden. I have some flowers called hydran
. gers. I bad some white ones and pink ones.
. I nut Mneing under them and on the roots
i ' and now the flowers are blue. P?>r pets I
i have six kltters and a bird dog—he is a friend-
> ly <!«g—and some yellow chicks. I go to school
as Weslev Chapel. School is out now.
I What do yon cousins think of this war? I
• have a brother in the marines. I sure do
hope peace will be declared before long. I
■ would be glad If some of yo«i cousins would
r write to me. I will close by asking a riddle;
! No legs, no feet, no arms, no head, no eyes,
no mouth, no nose, but still it goes. I will
| answer Eettle Owen’s riddle. It 1s a candle-
• stick when It to lit. Well, bye-bye.
i . ANNIE MOORE MABRY.
Rrewelf. Ga.. R. F. D. 23.
i Dear Aunt fu’ia and C-nsins: Won’t yon let
• a little girl from the Empire Sta’e of the
i S nith loin your happy Kind of cousins? I Ilw>
, on a farm of 100 acres n«-ar Buckhead. Ga., and
i like farm life fine. I <»n fruit and veg-
■ : and r» rk In *he garden during rhe
• > summer. I x-a> crochet, tat and play the
niano. I nav» -woof *h<- •ntest little kltt-ns
I for pets. Aunt Julia. I have your name. Who
i 'las my birth-toy. e February 2Sth? All of you
cousins r-ome to see' me and we will go camping
> this summer. I am eleven years <dd and am
i in the sixth grade at school. Good by to all
> the cousins and Annt Julia.
JI’IJA TEAGLE.
Burkhead. Ga.. R. F. D. No. 2.
My Dear Aunt Julia: I know yon are the
r best "auntie” in the world. For yon know
• exact'.* how to please children. It is said
“Children shot-id ?»*■ seen and not heard.” but
mamma says If we arc real nice and polite It
• to not bad for children to be beard as well as
seen. Annt Julia, i^/ mnst have been at your
snggestlon that we have the opportunity of
contesting for the nice book. I think It such*
a fine thing, and if I thou Id be ao fortunate
as to win it, 1 shall be indeed glad to pass it
along to the cousins. For that 1s the way to
make the world better amt happier. Christ
taught us thia beautiful lesson of love and un
selfishness. We have been studying It in
Sunday school. 1 am very fond of books, paint
looks, story books auu school books. Robert
l»uto Stephenson and Eugene Field are two of
my favorite authors. I have a small bank ac
count which one of my big uncles started when
I was a tiny baby. Baddy says 1 must keep
adding to it, ami when 1 am old enough to
go to college I can pay my uan expenses; but
I believe I want to buy a nice library ami let
-la-idy educate me. Onr preacher delivered a
sermon Sum.ay night on Christianity and the
war. it sure was fine. I was tx»o sleepy to
Rear It all, but I beard him say a lot about
the German nation. 1 think the war is terri
ble. Tlu little German children have as their
toys little tin soldiers, bayonets, drums and
guns. The dolls winch arc made in Germany are
•eut over here to we American children. 1 sure
do feel sorry for the little Belgian children.
We American children should be very happy aud
good, for we have such a grand country and
proud president. And last, but by no means
least, » dear Aunt Julia, who really, does love
i s aud feels an interest In our Improvuieent.
ith love io the cousins and Aunt Julia, your
little friend and niece, VIRGINIA WICKS.
“Oak Grove Farm, ’ Carrollton, Ga., R. F. D. 2.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I think it’s
kind of our dear editor to be so thoughtful of,
i:s children and give ua a chance to express auc
thoughts. As 1 live on the farm, my thoughts
are of the beauty of it. 1 enjoy going with,
father and brother to work. Sometimes 1 ride
horseback. Aa Igo along I see daisies bowing
to me, while along the path are Sweet
Williams. As 1 cross the brook I see the clear
water, so pure and fresh. There are to bo.
seen the beautiful ferns bending over tbe crystal,
stream. The birds seem to say. "Cheer-up.
Over there Is a field of green corn waving
its long green blades In the fresh air. All o$
which is inspiring to look upon. I am eleven
years old. LIZZIE SPRUILL.
Dunwoody. Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I am a llttlq
girl, ten yeart old, and live on a farm iq
Wilkes county, Georgia. Wilkes county to the
last of the original eight counties of Georgia.
It was laid out In 1777, and named for Johnl
Wilkes Washington is the county seat. Among,
the famous men of Wilkes were General Elijah,
Clark, George Walton (one of the signers ot,
the declaration of Independence), Stephen
Heard. Matthew Talbot, George R. <*«*«»«
(twice governor of Georgia* and James Osgood
Andrew, the first Methodist bishop from Geor
gia. His mother was one of the first converts
in the Methodist church in Georgia. Robert.
Toombs was another. It is said that a cotton,
gin was used in Wilkes before Whitney in
vented his. Washington, Ga.. was named for.
Geoige Washington. Mercer university
once at Washington. The last cabinet of thq
Confederacy was held In Washington. T“ e
farms of Wilkes are very fertile. Corn, cotton,
wheat, oats, peas, velvet beans, soy bea ’'"’ p . e^ a
nuts and sweet potatoes and fruit are th«
staph* crops. Moat domestic animals are raisei
such as horses, cows, sheep, hogs, goats and
Poultry. I belong to the Fence Corner club
anil have a fine garden. 1 tend to the turkeys
and chickens. Love to Aunt Julia and cousins,
ana enicae £ u>Wßl) SHANK.
Aonia, Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia: I am a boy e “' a
old. I was promoted from tbe fifth to t
sixth grade at the end of school. I am glad
school is tut so 1 can fish and go in swim
ming There is a creek a little way from
home We go blackberry picking and mamma
makes pics, jam and Jelly out of our berr **’ s -
For mv -tight work I drive home the cows from
the pasture, help to milk and bring in th.
stovewood. I hope my letter will not find
Its wav to the wastebasket.
, Yours very truly,
J. R. DEJOURNETT.
Greenville. Ga., ‘June 19. M>M.
Dear Aunt Julia: Here comes another Geor
Kia girl to join your happy band. I have Deen
a silent member of your department for quite
a while. Snrely think you did us a great fa
vor to get the editor to let us have a letter
box In The Journal, and I think best of ail
Is our letter contest. Os course we were proud
of It, but won’t wc be proud when we {earn
who has won the prize, for every one will.be
thinking their letter was just a little bit bet
ter than xome ope else’s, but yet don t get
disheartened if we don’t get the prize tb’s
time, and quit writing, for It will be old Geor
gia’s time again some time, so you see there
will be a chance for all. How many of you
cousins bare a garden? I have but It is so dry
It does not grow much.
Come again, Ib'becca Whitfield; your letter
was much appreciated in our box last week.
Certainly un sorry for you and your mother.
Am going to write to you some time soon.
Will close by wishing Aunt Julia much suc
cess with the ‘letter box. If any of you girls
and bora want to correspond with me tot yonr
letters fly to AUDREY SCOTT.
Baconton. •»«., Route 1.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you please
admit another little blue-eved country girl into
your happy circle from southeast Georgia? 1
am a little girl nine years old, although I’ve
never had but two birthdays. I live on the
farm and chop cotton, work in the garden,
wash dishes, took and help mamma do lots of
things when not in school. We don’t have
but four no.irhs In Appling county. I expect
to enter the firth grade when ouf school opens
next November. I have one sister and one
brother younger than myself. My little sister
goes to school with me. How many of you
cousins like to sing? I am very fond of singing
nnd reading. Well, Aunt Julia, for fear I will
make my letter too long and not win that lovely
little book 1-. the totter contest. With best
regards to Aunt Julia and cousins.
MAYSIE WHITE.
Route 2, Baxley, Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia: Here I am again, like tbe
old proverb “If first you don’t succeed try
again.” I im a young farm girl and proud to
lie. as I think farm life la very sweet. I im
an orphan, ind certainly svmpathlzv with all
orphans. I have never been to school, but 1
learned at lewne. I study all I can, for I In
tend to ednca.e myself. Some time I will tell
you my ambition. How many of you cousins
like to write poetry and essays? I do; also
like to paint and draw. I have been in ill
health for several years, end get very lonesome
and wish you cousins would write me, as I love
to write ind receive letters and cards. 1 will
answer all I can. Will be especially glad to
hear from ci-pbans. Hope this letter will be
printed. «Vill come again some time. Best
wishes to Aunt Julia and all the cousins.
(MISS) MONA EATON.
Smyrna, la.. Route 2, Box 11.
P. 8. —Glad to see you are going to have a
letter conjest.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you tot
another Georgia girl join the letter contest?
I live in the country nnd like country life fine,
for I have never lived In the city. I have
a real nice garden; have beans. English peas,
tomatoes, peanuts and sweet pepper. I go to
school at Wlieelon. I study the fourth and
fifth grade. My favorite study is geogrpahy.
We have a nice library. I have read several
gooa books. Have any of the cousins ever
read “Strive and Succeed?” I think it is the
best book ever read. We had a school fair at
the school house last year. I got first prize
on drawing .ag doll, dried apples, gourds and
apple pie. >id any of the cousins ever play
basketball? We have a basketball game at the
school house. I have two nice little pets, a
cat and calf. My cat’s name is Carranza and
calf's name is Wilson. I agree with the cous
ins about giving Aunt Julia birthday presents.
Who has ;ny birthday? I was ten years old
January 20. I would like to correspond with
any of the cousins. Will answer all I receive.
Well, my totter is getting long. I am gone.
Love to all.
THELMA WIGLEY.
Dallas, Ga., Route 1.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you ad
mit another Georgia boy into your happy band
of cousins? I am a farmer boy. I cultivate
twenty acres of corn, twenty acres of peanuts
I have one -ow. one sow, one ben. fifteen bid
dies. garden and potato patch. For pastime I
go in swtmning. hunting and fishing.
I would like to correspond with all of the
cousins. I rrill close by asking a riddle: What
to it that has four togs, two sides, one head,
one foot and can not walk nor talk ?
I am yours lovinglv,
ALEX TUCKER.
Cedar Springs. Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I have been
in my sixteenth year since April 21th. I have
recently returned from south Florida and am
now in the old red hills of north Georgia, my
natife state. Cousins. I suggest that we <!is
cesa Interesting and uplifting subjects and make
this corner the best of all letter box papers.
I enjoy reading good literature. I dearly love
my text-books. Ijitin. English, algebra and
physiology are my favorite studies. I greatly
desire tn he a Latin and English teacher in
college, but unless the Ixird provides away
for which I now see no opening, I will never
attain the position I would eagerly grasp. I
enjoy work anywhere from the washtub to the
glorious old fields whicV Gel has provided to
make our brood, the “•faff of life." I do
various kinds of fancy work. I may in my next
totter give a description of the beautiful town
where I,lived and some hints of the high school
I attended in Florida. Cousins, please tot's
remember Miss Rebecca Whitfield. My sym
pathy goes out to her because I know a great
deal of sickness and affliction in mv own family.
Lovingly, LILLIAN BOLDING.
White. Ga.
Hello, Annt Jnlto and Cousins! How are you
all this bright beautiful morning? All enjoying
life fine, I hope. Well. Aunt Julia, you just
keep up some good plan to make all us cousins
love you. Better every time the paper Comes.
I think you are so kind to offer us a book
for so little effort. I am small and can’t
write much of a letter, but I will try the
best I can. for I would be more than pleased
to get a book ‘from Aunt Julia if I should be
the lucky one. Say, cousins, you all come
on and let's have our Dm, aa dear Annt Julia
has given u» tbe flrat contest. She to such
a kind aunt to ua all. Well coualna, 1 think
American People Stand
More in Need of Religion
Than Rutabagas
BY BISHOP W. A. CANBLEB.
We hear much of “preparedness’*
for war just now, ‘and what we hear
is of importance. But there Is a
moral preparedness for war, as well as
a military preparedness, and it must
not be overlooked. It is to be feared
that in this matter of moral
paredness” the American people are
more deficient at this time than in
trie matter of rallltary “preparedness.”
It has been proclaimed by the high
est authorities of the nation that the
war into which our country has entered
is a war waged for the sake of freedom,
and the bonds which have been floated
to maintain the war have been called
"Liberty bonds.” This view of the war
is doubtless Just; but freedom may
be destroyed by the moral deteriora
tion of the nation as well as by the
assaults of foreign foes. The wisest
philosophers and statesmen have taught
us with absolute unanimity that free
institutions cannot survive the perish
ing of religious faith among a peo
ple.
Prof. Goldwln Smith, who was very
far removed from anything akin to
fanaticism, said, "Without religious
sanctions men never have been able to
live under a government or law.”
Political institutions which do not
rest upon moral foundations must, by
the very nature of things, speedily fall
Into ruin, and morality without re
ligion is impossible.
If these things be true with refer
ence to nations during the peaceful
periods of their history, how much more
are they true in a time of stress
and strain? The American people can
not afford to go into war without at
the same time turning anew to God.
There has been a revival of faith in
France, and in England It is said the
people are becoming more religious
than they have been for years. The
people of the United States will do well
to return from their backsliding and
folly, to their places of wor
ship, and seek again the God of their
fathers. Without such a revival of re
ligion the nation will lack the moral
life required for the sacrifices and ser
vices which the war will demand.
But there can be no revival of re
ligion among us if we countenance
longer encroachments upon the Sab
bath. The Christian religion can not
flourish l\i default of Sabbath observ
ance. Even Voltaire, the French infi
del, perceived this, and said, “There is
no hope of destroying the Christian re
ligion so long as the Christian Sabbath
is acknowledged and kept by men as a
sacred day.” The reverse of Voltaire’s
statement is also true, namely, that
there is no hope of preserving Christian
ity if ti.e Sabbath is overthrown. Years
ago Justice McClean, of the Supreme
Court of the United States, declared,
“Where there is no Christian Sabbath
there is no Christian morality; and
without this free institutions cannot
long be sustained.”
To the same effect spoke that brilliant
Virginian. Judge Randolph Tucker, who
said, “Ah! my friends, break down the
fence of Christianity and liberty, law.
and civilization will perish with It. I
wish to testify my belief that the insti
tutional custom of our fathers in re
membering the Sabbath day to keep it
holy as the conservator of their Chris
tian religion, is the foundation of our
political system and the only hope of
American freedom, progress and glory.”
Our people cannot preserve so much
as clear perceptions of right unless
they observe the Sabbath day and main
tain the reverent habits of worshipers.
A gentleman walking near a Pennsylva
nia coal mine saw a field full of mules.
In response to his inquiry about the
mules, the boy who was with them said,
“These are the mules that work all the
week down in the mine, but Sunday
they have to come up Jnto the light, or
else in a little while they go blind.”
Wherever the people of any community
do riot climb out of their pleasures and
toils once a week itno the quiet and
clarifying atmosphere of the Sabbath,
they become too blind to see clearly the
things which <ial<e for their highest
welfare and prosperity. Edmund Burke
said most truly, that “They who always
labor can have no true judgment.” It
is equally true that they who do not
labor, but pursue pleasure from week
to week and never observe the Sabbath
or 'attend religious services, lose their
capacity for sound judgment concern
ing any matters of gmportane.
All these things being true it is re
grettable to the last degree that some
are proposing various concessions dur
ing the war to those who would en
croach upon the sancity of the Sab
bath day. A so-called preacher in Bal
timore went through the profane per
formance of dismissing his congrega
tion that they might work their gardens
on the Sabbath. Such cheap clerical
demagogy “wearies indignation and fa
tigues disgust.”
The American people are not so short
of potatoes and «o long on piety that
gardening may for a time supercede
godliness. They may need corn, but they
need far more sorely consecration. They
need rutabagas far less than they need
religion. Our country was never more
rich in material things than it is now
and it is the most prof/ane folly and
foolish profanity to suggest that there
is any slightest necessity for any among
us to he working in gardens or fields on
the Sabbath day in order to save us from
hunger. Such proposals are the merest
pretexts for destroying the Sabbath un-j
der pretense of meeting the exigent
needs of this critical period in our na-1
tional history.
Akin to the proposals of this kind we
may expect to see all sorts of exhibitions
offered professedly in the interest of
one good cause or another. Ball games
and "movies.” will be advertised as giv
ing their gate receipts to relieve the
blind in France or the starving in Bel-1
gium. Let not the people be deceived
by any of these things. Those who
propose such things are not the leaders
of humane efforts; they are simply tak
ing occassion from a time of war to
break down the Sabbath day as far as
they may be able. They do not care so,
much for the needy as they are con
cerned to overthrow the sacred institu
tion which interferes with their plarts,
and pleasures.
The American people can not excuse
the profanation of the Sabbath with a
plea of necessity. We have not so much
as the want of ordinary comforts, to say
nothing of real necessaries, to tempt us
to commit this sin. or to extenuate the
wrong ff we commit it.
we all ought to drop a f»w lines to Miss Re
becca Whitfield and try to make hot feel wel
come In our corner. I have been hoeing cotton
this morning nnd am tired, so you all come
on with your letters and let's hear from all.
Cousins. I would be glad to have some of you
com<- and visit me this summer. I live right
on the Dixie Highway that runs from Tampa,
Fla., to Nashville. Tenn. Ro yon see. I see
all kinds of travelers which I enjoy. I visited
cne at my aunt's recently that live* near
the old Indian chief’s house and the old moun
tains that Beulah Thornton told you about.
Hoping to see this in the contest, I am your
same little coustns, as ever.
MATfIE SUE SITTON.
Calhoun, Ga., R. R. 1.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you have
a little girl eight years old in your happy band?
I hope to see this letter In print. For pets.
I have a little brother: he is one year old, and
a black bantam wltK eleven* little chickens. I
have three sisters and four brothers. I have
black hair and gray eyes and fair skin. I live
on grandpa’s farm. Our school is out. I
am In the first reader. I just started this
year. My papa takes The Semi-Weekly Jour
nal. I moat close. AGNES BURTON.
Lavonia, Ga.
The Thaws, Langley
And Aviation Linked
First William Thaw Backed
Professor Langley, Second
William Thaw Wins Fame in
the Air
BY VINCENT DBAYNE.
Everyone knows of the wonderful ex
ploits of Lieutenant William Thaw,
young Pittsburg aviator, In the French
forces. A noted man is he and a noted
man was his grandfather, the original
Wiliam Thaw, than wnom Pittsburg has
brought forth no more sturdy business
man, no more broad-minded citizen, no
more open handed philanthropist. These
two William Thaws would seem to be
opposite extremes—the one a builder
and the other an adventurer, though he
be one of the glorious adventurers. But
they are destined to go down in history,
inseparably linked together as men who
have contributed to the advance of the
science of aviation In such measure anu
in such manner that they could have
had no substitutes.
one m.ght count on one’s fingers the
men who know, or even suspect, that
William Thaw the elder had anything to
do with aviation. .Yet, if Professor Sam
uel Pierpont Langley be called the
"father of aviation’—as the whole world
now calls him—William Thaw must
some day come to be acclaimed as the
godfather of aviation. And he proved
a much more attentive and helpful god
father than that quiescent creature with
most children are endowed.
Coincidence, that much-abused word,
must be applied to the course of events
which have brought both William Thaws
so prominently into the history of heav
ier-than-air flying. For it was not a de
sire to emulate his grandsire in a con
tributing Interest in the science which is
pre-eminently the gift of the last decade
to human progress that impelled young
“Bill” Thaw to become an aviator. “Bill ’
Thaw probably knows as little of that
part of the glorious history of his
grandfather as the ordinary man on the
street.
His father, Benjamin Thaw, knows
something more of It; he is one of the
few who have a place on the afore
mentioned fingers. None knows the
story better than Charles W. Scovel, one
of the leading insurance men of this
day, who was so fortunate as to have
been thrown into close contact with
Prof. Langley at the period when the
latter was making experiments that
made Pittsburg the birthplace of the
aeroplane, and who knew, too, of the
progressing interest of Mr. Thaw in
Langley and his work. And of ft Mr.
Scovel says:
“No William Thaw, no Langley; no
Langley, no aviation.”
Mr. Scovel Is a son of Dr. Sylvester
F. Scovel, at that time one of Pitts
burg’s leading clergymen, later presi
dent of Wooster college, and a fellow
trustee with Mr. Thaw on the board of
the Western University of Pennsyl
vania, now the University of Pittsburg.
Through his father’s friendship with
Mr. Thaw and Prof. Langley, Mr. Sco
vel had a part in the lives of these
two men during the time the mo
mentous experiments were being made.
"Mr. Thaw became a trustee of the
university in 1861,” said Mr. Scovel
yesterday. “He was at all times, until
his death in August, 1889, Its heartiest
friend, and most generous donor. Mr.
Thaw was, I believe, the greatest phil
anthropist at that early day when .phil
anthropy had not become fashionable
and was not a means to fame or notor
iety. He was one of the greatest then,
too, of that age, a man of so great a
mind that his money, vast as It was,
was the least part of him. He was
ever eager to aid the growth of the
university. <
“When Pfof. Langley came to the
university in 1866 as professor of as
tronomy and director of the observa
tory, he found a kindred being in Mr.
Thaw. They became associates and
through Ixangley, Mr. Thaw developed
an interest in astronomy and solar
physics (Mr. Langley’s specialty) that
made them two men of one interest.
“Langley was then Interested most
in his studies of the sun. These studies
obliged him to enter upon an Investi
gation of the atmosphere, for we see
the sun only through the air and it
effects the earth only through the air.
Therefore it became vital, in the study
of solar physics, of which he was one
of the founders, that he know all about
the air, its resistance at various heights
and its variations.
"That is how aviation was born.
“For. as his studies progressed it be
came necessary for him to sand up in
numerable balloons and kites. I remem
ber he used to lie on his back, on Ob
servatory Hill, and watch the bird fly
ing, or the clouds drifting. Before he
knew it, he had entered upon the whois
problem of flying. He had no desire to
be the fatfier of aviation —had no
thought of It, but was interested in the
matter solely as a scientific problem
which was absolutely necessary to the
continuance of the study in mat field to
which he had dediacted his life.
“Then more and more extensive be
came his experiments with kites and
other devices and his watching of the
birds, until there came to him the first
faint conceptions of the principles on
which flight depended. Then he began
as a true scientist must to develop ex
perimental data from which to reduce
these principles to exact formulae.
“He built the old evolving table,
steam-driven which could be rotated at
a terriffic rate, on the upright of which
was an arm that was whirled about. On
this arm were fixed blades with which
he could determine the speed at which
it was being whirled and the angle at
which it was breasting the air. It was
all equipped with a minute recording
device which showed just how much lift
could be obtained at a specified angle
LEMONS BRING OUT
THE HIDDEN BEAUTY
Malte this lotion for very Mttle
cost and Just see
for yourself.
What girl or woman hasn’t heard of
lemon juice to remove complexion blem
ishes; to bleach the skin and to bring
out the roses, the freshness and the
hidden beauty? But legion juice alone
is acid, therefore irritating, and should
be mixed with orchard white this way:
Strain through a fine cloth the juice
of two fresh lemons into a bottle con
taining about three ounces of orchard
white, then shake well and you have
a whole quarter pint of skin and com
plexion lotion at about the cost one
usually pays for a small jar of ordi
nary cold cream. Be sure to strain
the lemon Juice so no pulp gets into
the bottle, then this lotion will re
main pure and fresK.for months. When
applied daily to the face, neck, arms
and hands it should help to bleach,
clear, smoothen and beautify the skin.
Any druggist will supply three
ounces of orchard white at very little
cost and the grocer has the lemons.
(Advt.)
iSfi HOME
fcye concutfed by
)(«tCon.
WHAT INFLUENCED CHINA TO BE
COME A REPUBLIC.
There can be no doubt as to the in
fluence of western civilization on public
opinion in China, also in Japan.
The principal question Is however,
“To what extent is the Chinese affair
traceable to western missionaries?”
From the earliest missionary movement
down to the year 1917 China has been
a central figure in missionary interest.
The Christian chjirches have for years
been pouring missionaries into the ce
lestial kingdom. The great paopaganda
of faith in Catholic church was
equally prominent. Protestant socie
ties, without exception, have kept mis
sionaries in China and are still send
ing thousands of dollars annually to
convert the yellow skinned Mongo
lians. The United States have been
furnishing medical societies over there,
more than fifty years ago, Germany,
Great Britain and Canada have been
equally diligent on this line of work.
The influence of a good doctor heue
at home is almost incalculable as a
preacher. We can have some idea there
fore a& to the effect of their helpfu’.
ministrations in China to the ignorant
auid poverty-stricken natives.
The money that goes into China from
Christian nations amounts to millions
every year. One denomination, the
Methodist, North and South, have tabu
lated fifty millions ' sent to China since
the missionary movement began here
in the United Slates. The Congregation
allsts report one hundred and fifty thou
sand annually through regular boards
with another hundred thousand in spe
cial gifts. The Baptists of our coun
try send as much as the Methodists.
All this money represents Protestant ef
fort.
Catholic contributions have been very
large but the amount is not generally
known.
. THE SBX PROBLEM AJTD YOUTH.
There is a difficult problem that faces
every parent as to what shall be told to
young people on the origin of life —and
when It shall .be discussed.
In the olden time, a plan was pursued
to keep young people, girls especially
In ai solute ignorance of this mooted
subject. If any subject connected with
the sex problem was mentioned in the
family circle, the word went round —
“send those youngsters out —they must
not listen.”
This policy turned over to the color
ed nurses—the curiosity of the young
ones—and they received just such in
formation as ignorance and superstition
afforded. When the children on the ad
vent of a new baby in the household,
asked the question. “Where do babies
come from?” The general answer was
“God made it,” or the doctor brought
it,” in his saddlebags, or the granny
found it in a hollow stump—or some
strange messenger had slipped it In the
cradle after dark when all good chil
dren were abed and asleep.
As a rule, it was the refusal of par
ents to satisfy the child’s curiosity—
which made them more curious than
they would otherwise have been and
more susceptible to the vulgar stories
and material out of which they formally
gained satisfactory information.
I have thought of this matter many
times and have no solution to offer that
satisfies my judgment. Perhaps there
should be some printed text —written
with care and truthfulness, which the
anxious parent can give to a girl or boy,
when they arrive at the age, say of
fourteen —and where they will under
stand, that the origin of human life Is
one of a few things too sacred to be
gossiped about—among their various
companions. Surely there must be some
sensible method.
FROM A PAITHTUL OLD SOLDLE3.
Dickey, Calhoun County, Georgia, June
18.—Mrs. W. H. Felton, Cartersville. Ga.
—Dear Mrs. Felton: I have been taking
The Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal a long
time and never miss reading your writ
ings, which always interest me. In your
last you spoke of the cool weather; it
is just the same way down here. The
thermometer was down to 56 this morn
ing and fire felt good. It Is very dry,
as we have not had a good rain since
April 5. The crop is Indeed dis
couraging. particularly cotton, and the
boll weavil has already made his appear
ance.
I wish I could have seen you in Wash-
and speed. That was the basis of the
whole problem.
’’With the table Langley made tens
of thousands of experiments until he
had the formula he wished. All this was
done in Pittsburg, with the exception of
the formal publication of the data. Aft
er the professor went to the Smithsonian
Institute he completed the formulation
of all this and then began the purely
mechanical task of building the ma
chine that would fly.
“By 1896 he had constructed the first
successful heavier-than-air flyer. It
tiew a couple of miles, or as long as its
fuel lasted. Then he set himself to the
task of evolving the structure and ma
chine for the aeroplane that was to cer
ry a man. These problems he worked
out in building the machine he con
structed in 1903. This had two disas
trous attempts, at flight, both of which
were failures through the fault of the
launching machine, which sent it into
the water instead of the air. That was
the same machine that Glenn Curtis flew
in a short time ago.
“The reason Prof. Langley did not go
on with his experiments was that such
public ridicule had been raised by the
failures of these two attempts that the
appropriation for his work was laughed
out of congress—when the man had
achieved the goal of human endeavor
for generations. Men came to him
with commercial plans for the develop
ment of his inventions, but he refused
them.
"For the 21 years, from 1866 until
1887, that Langley spent here. Mr. Thaw
supplied the money for all apparatus and
supplies with which Langley carried on
studies of solar physics and hte study
of the atmosphere reliminary to the dis
covery of aviation. Langley’s belometer,
which is now in use the world over by
scientists in a service which nothing
else has ever been found to do, his con
tributions to solar physics, his develop
ment and Improvement of the spectro
scope—all these were backed by Mr.
Thaw with all the money required.
•'But just as Indispensable as his
money, was Thaw’s other contribution
to Langley’s work—a warm, sympathet
ic, intelligent friendship, which display
ed the friendliest interest in Mr. Lang
ley’s ambtlons and dreams and which
made Mr. Thaw a junior partner in the
work—a sort of humble contributor who
was giving to another man the means
to pursue the work which he might nev
er hope to do. Had Prof. Langley been
given money for his work in a conde
scending. patronizing way it would have
choked hiny off at once.
"And to think that the grandson of
this man is leading the van of those
making the aeroplane, in Its first really
great triumph, aid so materially in this
fight for democracy, which was so pre
cious to the William Thaw of another
generation!"
ington. I barely got a glimpse of the
president. I could not get Into ttie ar
cade as It was so crowded, * and being
like Zacheus I climbed a sycamore
tree and barely saw him as he passed. I
saw many interesting sights. Among
them was Lee’s home, and as I stood in
front of that home I could not suppress
tfce tears that wehea up as I thought
of what that pi eat and good man sacri
ficed for what he considered his duty.
I also went to the Blair battlefield
within four miles of the city, where
we had a skirmish with the en’emy July
24, 1864. General Lee sent Early’s di
x islori there at that time to draw some
of the enemy's forces from Richmond.
It had the intended effect. Francis P.
Blair’s house (postmaster general of the
United States) was burned, and I count
ed forty graves of the enemy that were
kiAed in that skirmish. Senator HOce
Smith was very pleasant and kind m
shoeing us the many wonderful sights
in the capitol.
In October, 1862, I joined the Cal
houn Rifles, Company D, Twelfth Geor
gia regiment, Doles Cook brigade, just
after the battle of Sharpsburg, and
was there until the close. I have the
larole I got at the surrender. Colonel
Ed Willis commanded the Twelfth
Georgia regiment and a braver officer
never drew a sword. He was killed
near Richmond while temporally com
manding Pegram’s brigade. I carried
his remains to his father’s home in
Savannah. Dr. Francis T. Willis, foun
der of the “Mary Willis library” in
Washington, Ga. I know of only four
of the old original company still living.*
one of tijem, J. J. Carson, of Bluffton,
S. C., drove General Stonewall Jackson
off the battlefield the nigtot he was
wounded. Up to now I have been a
regular field hand on a small farm,
ever since 1870, have raised six boys
and three girls and none of the boys
have given me a particle of trouble
and are all consistent members and of
ficers In the church. All of them are
too old to register, the girls are too,
but I’d rather raise boys than girls
these days. The good wife and mother
left us in 1902 and I never married
any more as I knew I could not dupli
cate her. I will be 73 in October. Don’t
get a pension and never applied for
one.
The good Lord has been good to both
of us and even though you are so old
I hope you may yet be spared a long
time to write useful pieces for the
Journal Ever your friend and ad
mirer,
THOMAS E. PLOWDEN.
Dickey, Ga.
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